Im Rahmen des Shareholder-Value-Konzepts soll durch erfolgsabhängige Entlohnungsverträge sichergestellt werden, dass Führungskräfte ihre Handlungen und Entscheidungen trotz Informationsvorsprüngen und Interessendivergenzen am Ziel der Unternehmenswertsteigerung ausrichten. Als...

We use a unique dataset of more than 1,000 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers around the world to investigate the degree to which executives delegate financial decisions and the circumstances that drive variation in delegation. Delegation does not appear to be...

In this paper, we show that firms might get an additional strategic benefit from using marginal-cost-reducing investments in conjunction with a managerial incentive scheme. While both these instruments allow firms to “aggressively” participate in product market competition, we show that they...

Using a sample of 4,278 listed UK firms, we construct a social network of directorship-interlocks that comprises 31,495 directors. We use social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is...

In a principal-agent framework, we explain different managing styles. In our model, there are two vertical tasks -- an upstream task for improving the project's potential environment, and a downstream task for implementing the project. The downstream task must be done by the worker, but the...

We analyze competition through incentive contracts for managers in duopoly. Privately informed managers exert surplus enhancing effort that generates an externality on the rival. Asymmetric information on imperfectly correlated shocks creates a two-way distortion of efforts under strategic...

This paper examines the relation between cognitive perceptions of management and firm valuation. We develop a composite measure of investor perception using 30-second content-filtered video clips of initial public offering (IPO) roadshow presentations. We show that this measure, designed to...